IT’S a Halloween must for many parents.
But one mum who took her kids to the pumpkin patch to mark the spooky occasion was left majorly regretting her choice, after the disastrous day out.
Mum Rosie was left covered in mud and fuming after taking her kids to the pumpkin patch[/caption]
Rosie took to her TikTok page to share a video documenting the messy day out, as she wrote over the top: “POV: The pumpkin patch isn’t pumpkining.
“Your toddler is having a category 5 metldown, you’re up to your t**s in mud and you just had to pay £15 for a root vegetable.”
“It;s giving pig in s**t,” raging Rosie added in the caption.
The video showed the boggy field being used as the pumpkin patch, as well as Rosie and her child trying to navigate the mud and puddles.
She also showed the mud-covered wheelbarrows that were meant for people to push along with their pumpkins after finding the perfect one.
Other mums were quick to comment on the video, with many admitting they were equally unimpressed by the concept of pumpkin picking.
“I enjoyed picking ours on Morrisons on Friday,” one joked.
As Rosie replied: “So much cheaper and so much cleaner“.
While someone else agreed: “I’ll be pumpkin picking in Asda this year.
“Going to a patch is not as aesthetically pleasing as Instagram makes out!”
“I vowed last year after spending £90 on pumpkins I’d never do it again,” a third added.
“This year we planted our own!
“Best thing we did they look fab and we have half a dozen to carve and paint.”
“Oh god I’m going next week. It’s going to be hell isn’t it,” someone else sobbed.
“Pumpkin picking was likely the most unnecessary and traumatic event we did last year,” another commented.
“Took me days to get the mud off our boots and car and my kid hated it!”
Fabulous’ Commissioning Editor Martha Cliff weighs in on spooky season
WHILE some might be waiting for Mariah Carey to slowly defrost, I couldn’t care less that Christmas is less than 100 days away.
Has everyone forgotten that there are less than 50 sleeps until the best holiday of the year?
I’ve long preferred Halloween to Christmas and spend most of the year mourning the loss of spooky season.
Not that I don’t find ways to include it into my year.
In April I marked the halfway point to the best day of the year with a ‘half-o-ween’ picnic in a cemetery (where else?). Come July I needed to get my fix again and hosted a ‘Summerween’ barbecue complete with watermelon carving and Piña Ghoul-adas.
Christmas fanatics are often horrified by my snowy-season snub, but for me December is just a slew of stress and overspending.
I don’t know about you but wracking my brains for bigger and better present ideas and spending four times the amount of time and money at the supermarket is not my idea of a good time.
With Halloween there is no expectation to spend. Homemade costumes are often head and tails above the ones sold in the shops and when it comes to decorations what is better than a carved pumpkin that can cost just pennies to achieve?
In January kids return to school bragging about what Santa brought them this year, all with the hope of outdoing each other but November 1st is a different story.
Trick or treating is fair through and through. Unless you’re bribing the neighbours, children all receive the same, and whatsmore for free, eliminating any playground bragging rights.
Above all I love the chaos over curation when it comes to Halloween. There’s no obligation to strive for perfection, in fact the rule is the sillier the better. It’s all the childhood nostalgia of Christmas but without the pressure.
So spare me the Christmas spirit, I’ll opt for a fully fledged ghost any day.
“The only true representation of pumpkin picking,” someone else laughed.
“There is nothing enjoyable about pumpkin picking and this sums it up perfectly,” another agreed.
“Next time someone asks us to go pumpkin picking I am sending them this!!”
“The pumpkin picking is honestly such a wild concept,” someone else sighed.
“Pay twice as much to do your own labour. Did it once with my eldest, never again!”
“I am legit crying!” another laughed.
“This was me last week at the pumpkin patch with my toddler in what only can be described as a hurricane!”
“I honestly don’t understand the point of them, so we don’t go,” someone else said.
“I wouldn’t even know what to do with the pumpkin after!”
While another described taking her daughter as the “worst experience of my life”.
Rosie admitted she wished she’d gone to Morrisons for a cleaner, cheaper pumpkin choosing experience[/caption]
